Editing Setting:Cloudburst/Blue Daggers (section)

===Chapter Organization===

[[Image:Organization.png|thumb|left|The Blue Daggers' organizational structure, post-Great Rift]]


Thanks to the relentless but scheduled behavior of the Glasians, the Chapter has largely homogenized their Reserve Companies.  The formations still exist, but the ability of the Seventh Company, for example, to mobilize entirely on Land Speeders is gone.  In its place, the Reserve Companies train heavily in defensive infantry combat, formation-breaking, and urban combat, to ensure that they can be dispatched without assistance to secure systems from the depredations of the Glasians.  However, that does not extend to the Devastator Company, the 9th, which is the closest in composition to the Codex Astartes and its templates.

When the Chapter does mobilize for missions outside the Cloudburst Sector – increasingly common in the anarchy of the 42nd Millennium – the Chapter rarely sends an entire Company to deal with whatever problem they face.  They greatly prefer to send a single Strike Cruiser with at most a Company Captain and five squads, supported by an [[Apothecary]] or two and a bevy of Techmarines.  When the Chapter does dispatch larger forces, they send a member of the Council of Masters to lead them.  Coincidentally, this has been Lord Eiger on every occasion thus far.

Had all gone to plan, the Chapter had intended to change this protocol anyway.  Now that the Chapter has attained its fullest strength and integrated itself into the supply chain of the Adeptus Mechanicus, and proven itself in lengthy battle against many alien and Chaotic foes, it had intended to fan out its forces more, and participate in more military activities against foes outside Cloudburst proper.  That change has been forced upon them.

A typical dispatch of Blue Daggers previously consisted of the following forces, prior to the Great Rift opening:

[[Image:Dispatch.png|thumb|left|A typical combat deployment of the Daggers before the Great Rift opened]]